The study found at least 300 times in one month, kids were kept in isolation for at least 16 hours in a day for non-punitive reasons. The committee appointed by Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans concluded that the facility violates the Illinois Juvenile Court Act by not focusing on rehabilitation and offering programming, beyond schooling, to help those in custody.
Time better spent on the roadside picking up garbage.
debtsor
3 years ago
“Staff uses room confinement to control us,” another said. I totally get it. These are feral children who are too unstable to even release back to their parents or guardians or back into society. But what else can you do with them? Putting them in solitary confinement likely makes them worse and even angrier but when they’re in gen pop they’re just causing fights, disturbances and trying to escape. We as a society have a lot of problems with our youth and quite frankly there is no good solution. Rehabilitative and restorative policies might work on 1 in 100 but… Read more »
Time better spent on the roadside picking up garbage.
“Staff uses room confinement to control us,” another said. I totally get it. These are feral children who are too unstable to even release back to their parents or guardians or back into society. But what else can you do with them? Putting them in solitary confinement likely makes them worse and even angrier but when they’re in gen pop they’re just causing fights, disturbances and trying to escape. We as a society have a lot of problems with our youth and quite frankly there is no good solution. Rehabilitative and restorative policies might work on 1 in 100 but… Read more »
Their parents – or lack thereof – broke them.